I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

i did one of these online a long time ago. it was free. and i just did it with a couple of friends to be funny. surly it wasnt actually legit, but im supposedly allowed to officiate weddings... ha! never have though. and never will.

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I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

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I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

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i did one of these online a long time ago. it was free. and i just did it with a couple of friends to be funny. surly it wasnt actually legit, but im supposedly allowed to officiate weddings... ha! never have though. and never will.

i did one of these online a long time ago. it was free. and i just did it with a couple of friends to be funny. surly it wasnt actually legit, but im supposedly allowed to officiate weddings... ha! never have though. and never will.

Free....wow!

but did you get the id??

it seems like it came with a certificate you could print out. quite honestly, i forgot i even did it a few days later. havent really thought much about it since. i certainly dont regard it as anything serious. it would be funny if i performed one of my buddy's wedding or something... ha!

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Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

How old are you, Nikolaos? Us old crocks can smell a scam as obvious as this ten miles away.

I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

The cost has gone up. It used to be $25.00. It's legit. I have made reference to this several times.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

Anybody can cheaply become an "ordained minster" from some fake group if they just want to be able to do an essentially secular wedding and be legally allowed to do it and register it with the state...

But I wouldn't say that a Protestant pastor you meet on the street probably did something like this.

I used to be Protestant, and at every church I saw, the senior pastor had at least an M.Div, the assistant pastor usually did, and the youth pastors had at least associate degrees (the 2 year program you mentioned), or more likely an MTM (5 yr min counting undergrad). Many senior pastors eventually got D.Min's.

An M.Div is a 3 year masters program (i.e. you have to do a 3-4 year bachelor's first) that cannot be done by distanc-ed (a north american requirement for an M.Div to be accredited is that it can't be distance ed).

So you can go get ordained for free if you want, but, you won't get a job as a pastor that way, you'll just be able to marry your friends.

To get a job as a pastor, you have to be hired by a church (i.e. a local congregation, normally there is nothing like a bishop involved, just the local congregation hires someone for the job... with some groups like Lutherans who do have bishops, I don't know how hiring works there), and they aren't going to hire someone who doesn't have an M.Div.

It varies from denomination to denomination how "ordination" works. At the Baptist divinity school here, once you get an M.Div, I think you're recommended to be ordained by the local baptist association, but that doesn't make you a pastor, it's just a job requirement you get, then you actually have to get a job with a church to be a pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

Anybody can cheaply become an "ordained minster" from some fake group if they just want to be able to do an essentially secular wedding and be legally allowed to do it and register it with the state...

But I wouldn't say that a Protestant pastor you meet on the street probably did something like this.

I used to be Protestant, and at every church I saw, the senior pastor had at least an M.Div, the assistant pastor usually did, and the youth pastors had at least associate degrees (the 2 year program you mentioned), or more likely an MTM (5 yr min counting undergrad). Many senior pastors eventually got D.Min's.

An M.Div is a 3 year masters program (i.e. you have to do a 3-4 year bachelor's first) that cannot be done by distanc-ed (a north american requirement for an M.Div to be accredited is that it can't be distance ed).

So you can go get ordained for free if you want, but, you won't get a job as a pastor that way, you'll just be able to marry your friends.

To get a job as a pastor, you have to be hired by a church (i.e. a local congregation, normally there is nothing like a bishop involved, just the local congregation hires someone for the job... with some groups like Lutherans who do have bishops, I don't know how hiring works there), and they aren't going to hire someone who doesn't have an M.Div.

It varies from denomination to denomination how "ordination" works. At the Baptist divinity school here, once you get an M.Div, I think you're recommended to be ordained by the local baptist association, but that doesn't make you a pastor, it's just a job requirement you get, then you actually have to get a job with a church to be a pastor.

I clicked on this link for fun/curiosity. I expected it to at least be a six month course.NOTHING --- no requirements or study, other then send them $99 bucks!And agree to three things:1)I believe in one true God.2)I accept Jesus Christ.3)I confess I'm a sinner and repent.

Then send $99.00 and you are ordained (in all 50 states) a minister - pastor. And you can do wedding, baptisms, open up a church.

BUT wait, there's more, for $22.95 you get a free ID stating you are an ordained pastor.

I have met a lot of people introduced to me as pastor. and never really considered them as anything special or priestly, cause i thought they prob got it via on line course. I knew someone who was doing it on line but it was a legitish 2 year course.

From now on when i meet someone and they tell me they are a pastor or minister I'm asking "oh nice to meet you, what seminary did you go to."

How old are you, Nikolaos? Us old crocks can smell a scam as obvious as this ten miles away.

Yea, always wanted to get a lic plate"TRSTNO1"...Xfiles line, the tv show. thats always been my moto, trust no one, especially when $$ in involved!I feel like im 80yr, i look like im 65yr, but im actually 47yr. Bummer hugh.